RTwitterV2 is now out with functions to use both the sampled stream and filtered stream! github.com/MaelKubli/RTwi…

Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive), Emma Hoes, Maël Kubli et al. take a rare descriptive look at how people talk about content moderation debates on Twitter. A lot of the discourse centered around Section 230, which they show became polarized over time. journalqd.org/article/view/3…

Can ChatGPT be leveraged to assist fact-checking efforts? Yes! We find that ChatGPT accurately categorizes 12.000 fact-checked statements in 72% of cases. It is better at identifying true claims (80%) than false claims (67%). Sacha Altay Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive) AI, Media & Democracy | @[email protected]

⚡️Call for papers⚡️ Digital Democracy Workshop (4th edition) October 26-27, 2023 University of Zurich DSI Digital Democracy Digital Democracy Lab ⏰ Application deadline: May 31, 2023 🙌 Please share widely! digdemlab.io/forms/workshop…

Check out our new paper looking at open-source #LLMs for annotation tasks! Together with Meysam Alizadeh Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive) et al.

Come join our fantastic team! Happy to answer any questions 😃

🚨 Just out in @nature Scientific Reports🚨 What is the type of content people would share on social media if they were rewarded for it with 💰💰💰? In this paper, Meysam Alizadeh Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive) and I show that even a simple nudge (not yet actual money)... [1/X]

⚡️Call for papers Digital Democracy Workshop (5th edition) October 24-25, 2024 University of Zurich Submission deadline: 2 June 2024 DSI Digital Democracy Digital Democracy Lab Please share widely!🙌 democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-10-…

I'm thrilled to see our latest publication finally out in Political Communication 📓 🚀! The study demonstrates that negative media coverage can effectively drive policy changes at major social media platforms!

🥳 New publication! Communications Psychology As misinfo is rare and more news is reliable, do media literacy tips boosting trust in true news work just as well as ones promoting skepticism of false news? Yes! And as a bonus, they also boost trust in the media! 👉 shorturl.at/d8CNp

We are thrilled to share our new publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining! 🚀 We compare methods for creating a national random sample of Twitter/X users for digital research and social media analysis. Explore the findings here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨 New publication alert in PSRM Journal! 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest paper on gender bias in media coverage of elections! We analyze how advocacy campaigns influenced media attention to female candidates. Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2… With theresa gessler (inactive) @gessler.bsky.social and Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive)

✨ New Paper Alert ✨ Open-source LLMs excel in annotation tasks! Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4 🚀 Fine-tuning with moderate data > few-shot GPT-4 training 🎯 With Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive) & team doi.org/10.1007/s42001…